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The External Communications-International Relations Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
(BRRN EC-IRC) is saddened by the ongoing mudslide disaster in Freetown, Sierra Leone,
which was entirely avoidable. The city allowed residents to expand into dangerous areas
prone to such mudslides, and it bears responsibility for what may be over a thousand dead
and even more homeless. The State is always careful to manage our affairs when it benefits
the accumulation of wealth, but rarely when ther...
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[# Aborto3Causales] Today the law is promulgated that contains a transcendental advance in
the recognition of the right to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three causes.
We believe that this important step in sexual and reproductive rights is a conquest of the
feminist struggle in the country. This is expressed in the fact that the Constitutional
Court has been forced to recognize the hegemony of progressive and democratic ideas within
Chilean society, in a context of critici...
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In June we talked to Elisa from the Indymedia collective of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Elisa has
been involved in the anarchist movement for a long time and is one of the cofounders of
the Brazilian Indymedia. Which in turn is one of the earliest counter information projects
using the name and mode of Indymedia. In the conversation we talk about the political
developments in Brazil of the last years as well as how the autonomous movements have been
reacting to them. ---- Follow Indymedia Sao P...
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The Brazilian Anarchist Coordination repudiates the cowardly criminalization of South
African fighters and social fighters and their persecution. ---- In February 2015, four
community members were sentenced to 16 years in prison for participating in a protest in
their community. After a brief period of provisional release, two of the four militants
were again jailed on June 19, 2017. ---- On February 6, 2016, Papi Tobias, the father of
three children and a community leader struggling f...
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A worker in Brighton, UK has won over &#xA3;20,000 in unpaid holiday and wages in a dispute
with a restaurant. ---- Jo&#xE3;o worked at the restaurant from 2009 until a few months ago,
and on leaving calculated that they had been short-changed for tens of thousands of
pounds. ---- He had been working 65-hour weeks for less than minimum wage. Jo&#xE3;o, who has a
precarious migration status, then contacted a local union for help. ---- The restaurant is
not being named, as the claim was ...
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(en) [US] Cornel West: &quot;If it were not for the anarchists and the antifascists, they would have crushed us&quot; By ANA (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
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Sun Aug 27 05:28:18 GMT 2017

In the wake of the recent clashes in Charllotesville, Virginia, involving extreme-right
demonstrators, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and counter-demonstrators, black activist and
philosopher Cornel West gave an interview to the Democracy Now! Program led by journalist
Amy Goodman. The following is an excerpt from the interview. ---- There was a group of
brave students of all colors who were at the University of Virginia protesting against the
neo-Fascists. The neo-fascists had their ow...
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